586 pages ; 23 cm

Includes bibliographical references (pages 13-19)

Introduction -- Commentary -- The affliction of Job -- Job's cries against his origin -- The counsel of Eliphaz the friend -- Job's expose of false friends -- Job's complaint against God the watcher -- Bildad's ancient parable of the two plants -- Job on the futility of litigation -- Zophar on God's inscrutable wisdom -- Job on knowledge and wisdom -- Job's pretrial declaration -- Job's unorthodox hope -- Eliphaz on knowledge and retribution -- Job's complaints against friend and foe -- Bildad on the world of the wicked -- Job's hope of a redeemer -- Zophar on the fate of the wicked -- Job's disputation on the wicked -- Eliphaz's indictments of Job -- Job's quest to face God -- On delayed retribution -- [Bildad] on God's cosmic design -- Job's oath of integrity -- [Zophar] on the destiny of the wicked -- Poem on the quest for wisdom -- Job's speech of remembrance -- Job's final complaint -- Job's oath of purity -- The person and apology of Elihu -- Elihu's case against Job -- Elihu's defense of El's justice -- Elihu's defense of El's detachment -- Elihu's second defense of El's justice -- Yahweh's defense of his cosmic desigh -- Yahweh's control of behemoth and leviathan -- The restoration of Job

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